Emphasis Study

A study on design technologies for pedestrian spaces using spatial recognition

In recent years, street spaces and station squares of cities have been improved for tourist promotion and revitalization of downtown areas. However, in many past cases, improvements have not contributed effectively to the creation of actual activities, due to insufficient consideration to users’ impression assessment and improvements in comfort levels in terms of improving the attractiveness of pedestrian spaces.

 

Accordingly, it is necessary to develop evaluation methods and design technologies for pedestrian spaces that can contribute to improvements in the attractiveness of tourist spots and downtown areas, based on the relationship with users’ special recognition, impression assessment, walking behavior and other factors.

 

Against the above backdrop, this study aims to present evaluation methods and design technologies for attractive pedestrian spaces through field observation, comparative experiments and verification of users’ spatial recognition and walking behavior.

 

The results are expected to help create pedestrian spaces that can contribute to regional promotion, in the form of technical data for identification of specific problems and appropriate design support in improvement of pedestrian spaces.